CHEN,ANAIS/IVANOVA,ALEXANDRA - Bach: Sonaten Violine,Cembalo BWV1014 - 1019 (Sealed) (2CD)

In 1859 the Austrian opera singer and music collector Franz Xaver Hauser made a remarkable attic find: he discovered a manuscript with the Six Sonatas for violin and obligatory harpsichord of Johann Sebastian Bach, which is still the oldest surviving copy of these works. Most of it was made in 1725 by Bach's nephew Johann Heinrich Bach, who was only 18 years old at the time. These sonatas, which are among Bach's most frequently performed chamber music works today, were already widespread around Bach in the 18th century. In this cycle, Bach frees the harpsichord from its role as a pure continuo instrument and places the right hand of the keyboard instrument on an equal footing with the violin, while the left hand forms the bass. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach counted them among the best works of the Blessed Father and wrote in a letter to Johann Sebastian's first biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel 1774: "There are some Adagii in them that cannot be made more saner these days. In this first recording for the label ES-DUR, Anais Chen, baroque violinist and her musician partner Alexandra Ivanova approach the sonatas in an extremely differentiated manner, with a sense of style and great passion.